skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was super annoyed when they added accounts to Authenticator and one misclicked pop-up sent my 2FA codes to the cloud. The moment I saw this new feature I knew something like what happened to OP would happen.

On the bright side I keep a copy of everything in a Yubikey as well.
Absolutely. Its a fun rabbit hole to go down, and the only constraining factors are time, money, and imagination.
This is exactly the conclusion I came to. I still use Obsidian for a lot of things, but I've developed my own task management software that uses plain text files and fzf for everything: https://codeberg.org/ngp/tsk

It has worked great for me! That being said, sync and mobile usage is still a bit of a sore spot with it. It works beautifully with Termux, but I wish there was some way to slap a basic UI on top of a CLI application for mobile. Tk/Tcl is the closest but there's only options on Android (I'm mostly an iOS user) and even then it's not really ideal. For sync, I at least have a reasonable plan: IMAP4 or git-based sync. The roadmap and tasks for the project are tracked in-repo with itself, so it definitely works.
At any reasonable quality, AI is even more expensive than raytracing. A simple intuition for this is the fact that you can easily run a raytracer on consumer hardware, even if at low FPS, meanwhile you need a beefy setup to run most AI models and they still take a while.
Non-MSN(wsj): https://archive.is/Vhtdw
I've always been interested in making my decorations a bit more interactive using coding, but I'd definitely want something more subtle than one of these intricate light shows played to music. Any good examples of something more subtle?

Unless you're really close to your neighbors and they're all on board, I feel my neighbors wouldn't want the extra attention on our street.
The current approach seems to be ray tracing limited/feasible number of samples and upsampling/denoising the result using neural networks.
Show HN: PicTune – Turn your photos into music playlists
Angela Collier, who made that video, if full of it.
See: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/tag/neural-rendering/

Specifically this one, which seems to tackle what you mentioned: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/rtr/publication/hadadan2023...
I think losing the Google money will be the only thing that could save Firefox... although it'll be a tough year or two while all the execs flee and side projects get axed.
I have never actually seen aspect-oriented programming used in the wild. Out of curiosity, in what context are you seeing AOP used?
95% of the time, I can only get 1 voice at a time. 5% of the time, I can get 2 or 3 voices at a time (1 variable pitch, the others fixed pitch) but I have no idea what input causes this rare behavior. Can you add some help text explaining what various input sequences will achieve?

Android Chrome with touch input (Pixel 8 Pro).
I would not be on a plane or maybe even an elevator mid-January 2038

if it can do this to cloudflare, imagine everything left on legacy signed 32bit integers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-and-why-the-leap-second-affe...
Now that truly sounds creepy. Automated attitude adjustment.
Any that runs OPENWRT.

It's important to use firmware from open-source because it's auditable and inspectable. Another reason is it supports everything you're looking for above, functionality-wise. As an music artist who doesn't program anything other than html+css, I appreciate openWRT's UI, great forums and resources, and network controls to prioritize traffic, reduce ads served, etc.
i want too learn go,contribute to GO open source projects, do bug bounty hunting, and switch security related jobs
So port knocking, but with also returning junk during the knocking process?
This is an interesting idea but please no more AI graphics generation in video games please. Games dont get optimized anymore because devs rely on AI upscaling and frame generation to get playable framerates and it makes the games look bad and play bad.
IMO the only thing you can assume is that the person who wrote the comment wasn't actively trying to deceive you. You should treat all documentation, comments, function names, commit messages etc with a healthy dose of scepticism because no one truly has a strong grip on reality.
> a useful and elegant technique

Maybe, but who does it benefit? What is the outcome for people using the web? How were the developers making websites benefiting? It wasn't a bad effort but it was focusing on something that didn't actually solve the biggest problems with the web. XHTML wasn't built for anyone real, it was built for an idealistic outcome.

Private companies (Adobe, Sun, Microsoft, Real, Apple) had a literal monopoly on video and animation on the Web. A lack of interface between JavaScript and the DOM led to companies like Microsoft freely inventing their own stuff.

If you want to be the steward of a technology, you have to care about the way people are actually using the technology. Otherwise someone else who actually does care will (and did!) come along and do something meaningful.
You think Truth and Falsehood exist in "philosophy, and theology"???

Not any philosophy or Religion I've seen.

There is a lot more truth in History like "Japan Bombed Pearl Harbor", than Religion and "The universe rests on the back of a giant Turtle".
Right, but Pi-Hole can't help with this.
Packaging a distribution efficiently requires sharing as many dependencies as possible, and ideally hosting as much of the stuff as possible in an immutable state. I think that's why Debian rejects language-specific package distribution. How bad would it suck if every Python app you installed needed to have its own venv for example? A distro might have hundreds of these applications. As a maintainer you need to try to support installing them all efficiently with as few conflicts as possible. A properly maintained global environment can do that.

Edit: I explained lower down but I also want to mention here, static linkage of binaries is a huge burden and waste of resources for a Linux distro. That's why they all tend to lean heavily on shared libraries unless it is too difficult to do so.
Show HN: Quixotic – a tool for wasting bot and LLM scraper time
I get a lot of bot traffic, most of which doesn't appear to respect robots.txt, so I made a tool to easily rewrite my content to serve to these bots instead. It consists of two components:

quixotic - a command line tool that is static-site friendly to generate a copy of a website with some of the words replaced using a Markov generator.

linkmaze - a web server that I can send the worst bots to. It generates 100% Markov content on the fly and with random links that also refer to linkmaze content.
It probably works better when the reflected ray is almost tangent to the surface. But that should be an epsilon case.
I don't own MSTR because I want to own bitcoin. I own MSTR because they buy and hold bitcoin, while creating volatility on their stock, which enables a lucrative options market. There is a subtle distinction there.

The premium is irrelevant to me because my goal is to own more MSTR stock. The more stock I own, the more covered call options I can sell. Once everyone starts compounding the stock, the price goes up, they have more money to buy and hold more bitcoin, the price of bitcoin goes up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem

What he has created is a circular infinite money machine that can only be likened to what Warren Buffet did with buying insurance companies and their infinite float.
What is crazy is most of these routers can be had for ~20 used and handle most families concurrent connection needs, its incredible!

https://openwrt.org/toh/start
Organize and save your favorite chats in ChatGPT
> Abstracting chunks of compound conditionals into easy-to-read variables is one of my favorite techniques. Underrated.

Same. Or alternatively I will just put the English version in comments above each portion of the conditional, makes it easy to read and understand.
Oh no, the algae, nobody thought of them!
No I don't. Google didn't even publish the Chrome OS source until the end of 2009, and it wasn't a consumer product until June 2011.
Firefox reader mode (necessary to read this, as the font size and color choices are poor) estimated this at a 30+ minute read. It would be a courtesy to readers for authors to provide a summary. That way people can decide if they want to spend time reading further. This is why academic papers have an abstract up front.
Agent based chatbot to search 170M Patents with natural language questions
Honestly i think these are the same though. I'm never _less_ drawn to doing important things than when i watch youtube for the first hour or two of the day. Starting the day with a complete dopamine dump (i don't know if it's correct physiologically but it feels like it) really kills motivation and thus avoiding it really makes the day productive. Since I've noticed in myself, it make a lot bigger difference than one might assume
This is like the Bojack Horseman prescription to solve America’s gun problem (Watch the show, I won’t spoil it)
All countries have border policy including yours, this isn’t about Europe, or about Africa. Why do you assume border policy is xenophobia, and not, say, logistics and resource and tax management? Why would you jump to a conclusion this has more to do with race than with money or stopping crime?
Colada for Claude: Get past your Claude limits using your own Anthropic API key
Hey all! I've built a Chrome Extension called "Colada for Claude" that solves a frustrating problem for AI power users: Claude.ai's conversation limits.

The extension seamlessly continues your Claude conversations by routing through your own Anthropic API key. It uses Plasmo/React with simple script injection and Chrome storage to provide uninterrupted AI interactions.

Key features:
- Bypass Claude.ai conversation limits
- Use your own API key
- Preserve conversation context
- Simple, lightweight implementation

Normally priced at $9.99, I'm offering Hackernews readers a 50% discount with code "HACKERNEWS".

This is my first SaaS product, and I'm eager to get feedback from the community. Would love to hear your thoughts on solving this pain point for AI users.

https://pay.usecolada.com/b/eVa9DMan3fJX8dW7ss?prefilled_pro...
I upvoted this before I even looked at the link.
Feedback: first thing I tried is searching for "leaky relu" and I got a bunch of results related to fluids, which is... not very relevant. (:

Compare that to scholar which returns all relevant results:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=leak...

You might want to retrain/finetune your own embedding model instead of using a general-purpose one.
I was tired of losing track of my important chats, so I built this extension; hopefully, it will help you as well. Kinda sad this doesn't already exist natively.
Already solved haha: https://pulsemesh.io
Edge to msft
Simply survive the hardest year of classes I'll ever take. Help finish the paper from my undergrad, get a good start on my PhD research, maybe date a girl, start going to open mics again
We don't know what to label those features/dimensions, because they're a reduction form higher dimensions that we also didn't bother to interrogate.

It's possible to figure them out. I wish OP would.
Suchir Balaji's mom talks about his life, death, and disillusionment with OpenAI
https://archive.ph/LLs4Y
Is this an AI-generated comment? It adds nothing at all to the discussion
It's also easier to control an inherently unstable tailless delta-wing at low speed, with gear down and control surfaces up. Which is exactly what we see.

It's possible this was an attempt to make the videos possible, but it's also plausible that the videos were possible because this thing needs to fly low and slow to stay in the air in its present form.
Ask HN: Are Pure Software Startups Out of Luck?
I’ve been working on the process of identifying problems and turning them into ideas. Recently, I started building an MVP to collate all my lab reports into one place—only to see someone release something very similar (see biotracker.me) on Show HN just the other day.

Another idea I had was about organizing all hospital health records in one platform, but it turns out there are already several startups working on that (see: onerecord.com) . It feels like every idea I come up with is already being solved by someone else.

Even with the explosion of LLM-based technologies, most new apps just feel like wrappers around ChatGPT—something anyone else could easily replicate.

So, I’m curious: what are some hard software problems you’d love to see solved? Or am I just looking in the wrong places for inspiration?

Would love to hear your thoughts!
UC is the direct lab administrator and the focus of the labor union because that's who their labor contract is with.

There are both state and federal agencies with responsibilities, including the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the US Department of Agriculture, and the US Food and Drug Administration.
This seems like a fools errand to me. Unlike C/C++, Rust apps typically have many small-ish dependencies, trying to align them to a dist-global approved version seems pointless and laborious. Pointless because Rust programs will have a lot less CVEs that would warrant such an approach.
I do this except with git, fzf, and a simple CLI tool:

https://codeberg.org/ngp/tsk

Contributions welcome :)
Projectors tend to have brightness issues, that would make it even dimmer
Well, they do have meaning by themselves, but it's more work to figure that out. All regular, predictable relationships "have" meaning because all meaning is prescribed. And since we've captured many such prescriptions in LLMs, they can do a decent job approximating those.
Of course the Algol 60 committee could not have used a parser generator tool because they were not invented until later in the 1960s, but your point is valid for anyone developing a language after that time.
If they had a vaccine why would they need facemasks?

I hated going to the grocery store in a facemask, much less working a 12h shift at a poultry farm. That sounds awful to me.
I wrote a short story the other day about making the carbon problem obvious to every human on earth[1]. I’d love to read yours when you finish it. We need more fiction that focuses on this along with the nonfiction imo.

[1] https://jck.earth/2024/12/20/heaven-scent.html
I figure why not plot them with an X and Y (Y,C) of some sort
Wait, by whom? The FBI? The CIA?

Sign me up, I want to get paid by the CIA's urbanist YIMBY astroturf project, right now I'm just posting for free like a sucker.
> Packaging a distribution efficiently requires sharing as many dependencies as possible, and ideally hosting as much of the stuff as possible in an immutable state.

I don't think any of this precludes immutability: my understanding is Debian could package every version variant (or find common variants without violating semver) and maintain both immutability and their global view. Or, they could maintain immutability but sacrifice their package-level global view (but not metadata-level view) by having Debian Rust source packages contain their fully vendored dependency set.

The former would be a lot of work, especially given how manual the distribution packaging process is today. The latter seems more tractable, but requires distributions to readjust their approach to dependency tracking in ecosystems that fundamentally don't behave like C or C++ (Rust, Go, Python, etc.).

> How bad would it suck if every Python app you installed needed to have its own venv for example?

Empirically, not that badly. It's what tools like `uv` and `pipx` do by default, and it results in a markedly better net user experience (since Python tools actually behave like hermetic tools, and not implicit modifiers of global resolution state). It's also what Homebrew does -- every packaged Python formula in Homebrew gets shipped in its own virtual environment.

> A properly maintained global environment can do that.

Agreed. The problem is the "properly maintained" part; I would argue that ignoring upstream semver constraints challenges the overall project :-)
The oceans are big, so why limit it to one ship. Have a fleet of ships where each ship serves different purposes. Navies have been doing this for most of naval history.
Be aware that if you run something like this, you will get dozens of bug bounty requests by people who scanned your machine and found "known vulnerable version of X" running.
Behind Closed Doors: The Spy World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak
There are many good treatments of this supposed loophole. I happen to like this one:

https://blog.gruffdavies.com/2017/12/24/newtonian-physics-is...

It points out many flaws in Norton's reasoning, some fatal to his argument, some not. Putting it as simply as I can, Norton seems to claim that "Newton's Laws" are non-deterministic. That's not quite right. Rather, they are non-complete. I.e. they are incomplete. They're incomplete insofar as Newton's First Law ("An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force") establishes first-order and second-order derivatives (momentum and acceleration) as state variables but places no constraints on higher-order derivatives. However, higher-order derivatives are (as many as are needed) among a system's state variables. In many (but far from all), higher-order derivatives are zero and human experience with them is rare, so they're easy to overlook. Norton's (unphysical) Dome is a specific example of a general class of systems where higher-order derivatives are not zero. Given that, the two branches of Norton's equation of motion (for the stable and unstable trajectories) cannot both describe the same system (or the same particle) with the same set of state variables. That's the sleight-of-hand.

Again, all credit to Gareth Davies for working this out. I am absolutely not trying to pass off his work for my own. Just reporting it and trying to summarize it.
Wow, Neopets is what got me into web dev. I didn't know they had their own guides!
Good stuff! Especially for someone just starting to realize the performance implications of their SQL.
I spam this every time I have a chance: create a better version of captchas. Something that detects bot traffic reliably, but at the same time it does it in a way that's invisible for humans.

I would pay money for it, would even consider investing, if you come up with a idea that can be patented. (If there is no patent, I would be still a paying customer)
While some very large models may need beefy hardware, there are multiple forms of deep learning used for similar purposes:

Nvidia's DLSS is a neural network that upscales images so that games may be rendered quickly at lower resolutions, and than upscaled to the display resolution in less total time than rendering natively at the display resolution.

Nvidia's DLDSR downscales a greater-than-native resolution image faster than typical downscaling algorithms used in DSR.

Nvidia's RTX HDR is a post-processing filter that takes an sRGB image and converts it to HDR.

So, it is very likely that a model that converts rasterized images to raytraced versions is possible, and fast. The most likely road block is the lack of a quality dataset for training such a model. Not all games have ray tracing, and even fewer have quality implementations.
I couuld and really use this, but it didn't work for me. And HAS to have a date filter. That is a must maybe with some time based pre-option defaults like HackerNews. Good luck, want to try again when it works. Good idea
I simply don't understand how you could think that about Brave yet in the same breath say that Firefox is worse, what exactly is worse about Firefox than hiding a literally cryptocurrency scam token in the browser itself?
This sounds like a very unsafe approach for this allegedly "safe" language. You should not categorically ignore the advice of the library and app authors in favor of some QA-driven time wasting scheme. If the authors are not releasing software stable enough to put together a distribution, then talk to them and get them to commit to stable releases and support for stable versions of libraries. I know they might not cooperate but at that point you just wash your hands of these problems, perhaps by hosting your own mirror of the language-specific repo. When users start having problems due to space-wasting unruly apps, you can explain to them that the problem lies upstream.
I feel like this is a case of the no silver bullet principle. Like, going from a legacy/pre-modern/old language to modern, dynamic to static typed, etc. isn't going to magically make your projects succeed.

Maybe these failed projects in modern languages are the graveyards of those who believed that silver bullets exist.

Or maybe Rust projects are filled with people of first and foremost want to learn Rust, and the actual completion of the project is secondary.
Yeah but that has something to do with

1) commercial hardware pipelinea being improved for decades in handling 3D polygons, and

2) graphical AI models are trained on understanding natural language in addition to rendering.

I can imagine a new breed of specialized generative graphical AI that entirely skips language and is trained on stock 3D objects as input, which could potentially perform much better.
Microsoft-OpenAI Deal Defines AGI as $100B Profit Milestone
We like them for breathing purposes. They produce about 70% of the oxygen.
Just to be sure, you mean telemetry in the sense of "retrieve latest ISS " telemetry, or "evil marketing 101 phone-home" telemetry...?
I'm sure this will end well =-)
Hangover cures are everywhere in Japan – but do they work?
High school math has a standardized curriculum that doesn't change significantly - it's 100% possible to create this high quality material for the whole n years and make use of it year after year. Especially that the most important part of this is the software used to make these semi-interactive graphics (which is open-source), so a teacher can just do it their own way, incorporating animations fit for their examples - no need to pre-render a video for each day. Do a "normal" class and visualize important aspects.
I don't know if they actually broke it yet, you can click through a bunch of options and re-enable it still.
As AI systems grow more sophisticated, we’re forced to confront a question once confined to science fiction: Should AI have “rights” similar to humans? And if so, what would it mean for AI to face consequences if it violates those rights or harms society? Read a model of AI ethics, one that hinges on identifying what AI truly values and using that as the lever for rights and obligations.
I believe you that the F# PDF describes it, but the text of the fine article itself does not describe it in any recognizable way.